What’s The Deal with Airline Food?

Deadly serious, slightly unhinged, dripping with sweat and glistening with starlight, Boorloo psych-pop quartet Airline Food have released their debut album.

Preceded by a batch of retro-flavoured singles, an EP and sepia tinged music videos, the group’s first full length release sees the band scoop up some of the best bits of 60s, 70s and 80s pop music and retool them into a hi-def package of vintage indie-funk.

This collage of groovy cultural signifiers makes listening to The Deal a bit like experiencing an oddly enjoyable synthesiser-driven fever dream where satirical takes on modern day cryptocurrency conspirancies collide with a pastiche of 80s Wall Street machismo and disco ballads of the 70s, à la Giorgio Moroder. These touchstones are filtered through youthful ears and reworked with modern production techniques and a nous for very fun hooks and choruses.

A post-modern appreciation for the cultural contexts that produced the musical styles that continue to move and groove contemporary musicians and listeners is Airline Food’s deal; their debut record is more rewarding than any Seinfeld punchline.

Synth-centre of the band Conor Levy joined Pam on Brekky to explain and explore the making of the record.